Yves Henry - 2016 Fall Benefit Recital

CONCERT LECTURE "DU PIANO DE SALON AU PIANO ORCHESTRAL"

Yves Henry brought to you by Crédit Agricole CIB Tuesday December 6, 2016 Cultural Services Embassy of France New York, USA

Yves Henry

Both pianist and composer, Yves Henry was trained at the Paris Conservatoire in the 1970s­80s, where he studied with Pierre Sancan and took courses in chamber music, accompaniment and choral direction as well as classes in writing, obtaining a total of seven premiers prix by the age of 22.

The same year, after having worked with Aldo Ciccolini for three years, he won First Grand Prize at the Robert Schumann International Competition in Zwickau.

He is now recognized as one of the specialists in the interpretation of Chopin and Liszt, in particular owing to his experience with instruments from the Romantic era.

Professor at the Paris Conservatory and the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Paris, member of the programme committee of the Chopin Institute in Warsaw on the occasion of the Chopin bicentennial in 2010, and honorary member of the Japanese Piano Teachers Association, Yves Henry gives numerous recitals the world over, primarily devoted to composers of the Romantic era. Regularly invited for master classes at universities in the USA, Japan and China, he sits on juries of important international competitions (Monte­Carlo Piano Masters, Dvořák Piano Competition in Nelahozeves, Robert Schumann International Piano Competition in Zwickau, International Frédéric Chopin Competition in Warsaw).

He also devotes himself felicitously to chamber music alongside his violinist brother and various partners (Michel Portal, Karl Leister, Ivry Gitlis, Brigitte Engerer, Augustin Dumay, Gary Hoffman, soloists of the Orchestre de Paris, Michel Lethiec, the Elysées and Modigliani quartets…) and is at the origin of several productions combining literature and music with actresses Marie­Christine Barrault and Brigitte Fossey.

In addition to his activities as a performer and teacher, he has composed several works inspired by texts of the Corsican poet André Giovanni (Les Chants Tyrrhéniens, Les Sentiers dérobés) along with chamber music pieces (Kaga Yusen for violin and piano, Suite Vénitienne for flute, cello and piano, Il soplo ligero for clarinet and piano). He recently composed a Nocturne for orchestra that was first performed in Paris and Germany in 2014. He has also made transcriptions for concert performance of works including Paul Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice, Maurice Ravel's La Valse, and Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, which will be the object of a CD release in 2015.

In January 2010, he was promoted to the rank of Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by Frédéric Mitterrand, Minister of Culture, received the Gloria Artis award from the Polish government for his contribution to the Chopin Year in France, and was one of the personalities to be included in the 2010 Who’s Who in France. In January 2011, he succeeded Alain Duault as President of the Nohant Chopin Festival.

Discography: from 2006 to 2009, Yves Henry has recorded, in 4 CDs, the complete works that Chopin composed or finished in Nohant (CD­book Les étés de Frédéric Chopin à Nohant, Éditions du Patrimoine, 2010). In 2011, he released a Liszt recital. In May 2014, he released a 2­CD set devoted to the reconstitution of Chopin's last concert in Paris ('Choix France Musique’) recorded with an 1837 Pleyel piano at Chaumet jewellers, 12 Place Vendôme, the very site of Chopin's death in October 1849. In 2015, he released a double­CD set (Liszt / Schumann / Chopin). This recording is the fruit of a double confrontation: on the one hand, between Schumann, Chopin and Liszt, three giants of the Romantic generation who dedicated piano works to each other; and on the other, two piano builders, Pleyel and Erard who, at the same period, were exploring completely opposite aesthetic and technical paths. The relations between Schumann, Chopin and Liszt are discussed by Doctor Thomas Synofzik, Director of the Robert­Schumann­ Haus in Zwickau. [

Yves Henry was the first to record, on CD and DVD, Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op.28 in two versions: one on an 1837 Pleyel, the other on a modern concert piano (Editions Lancosme Multimedia. Concert recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris).

Concert Lecture "Du piano de salon au piano orchestral" Pascal Henry, Piano December 6, 2016 at 6:30pm Cultural Services, Embassy of France, New York, USA

Franz Schubert (1797­1828) Impromptus D.899 in G­flat major (1827) Frédéric Chopin (1810­1849) Grande valse brillante in E­flat major Op.18 (1833) Robert Schumann (1810­1856) Warum, extracts from Fantasiestücke Op.12 (1837) Franz Liszt (1811­1886) Widmung (Schumann (1840) / Liszt (1848)) Paraphrase of Rigoletto (1855/59) Alexandre Borodine (1833­1887) Polovtsian Dances (1879), Concert version by Yves Henry Sergei Rachmaninov (1873­1849) Prelude Op.32 No. 5 in G major « Moderato » (1910) Prelude Op.23 No. 2 in B­flat major « Maestoso » (1903) Paul Dukas (1865­1935) The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897), Concert version by Yves Henry This program links the technological evolution of the piano and the evolution of the piano repertoire over the course of the 19th Century.

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FRENCH-AMERICAN PIANO SOCIETY

2017 Piano Recitals Jean­Efflam Bavouzet Tuesday, January 24th at 6:30pm Consulate General of France in New York Hélène Tysman Intégrale for Piano, Ravel Part 1, Tuesday, April 18th at 6:30pm Consulate General of France in New York & Part 2, Tuesday, April 19th at 6:30pm Steinway Hall New York 2017 French­American Piano Week June 19­23 Hotel Sofitel New York 2017 Awards Ceremony

by Young Pianists Scholarship Recipients Thursday July 20th at 6:30pm Consulate General of France in New York